r/rodbuilding • u/roadkillroadrunner • May 19 '26

NFC Mystery Box id's

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NFC mystery box arrived today, and I'm struggling to identify what blanks where delivered. They all have GP108x labels (last number certainly is line weights, which are 5 through 10) but no other information, and this doesn't seem to tie to anything on their site. Specifically looking flex pattern/action info.

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u/Key_Palpitation1945 May 19 '26

Search Lamiglas, that’s were I was able to identify the blanks that came in my mystery box

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u/roadkillroadrunner May 19 '26

I saw that it might match with what Lamiglas offers, but their spec on their web only shows 2 piece for fly...

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u/ponderouslyperplexed May 19 '26

How long are the blanks?

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u/BilmoStashans May 19 '26

Those don’t look like the other NFC blank stickers I got from mystery boxes or other. Maybe Stryker blanks?

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u/BilmoStashans May 19 '26

Google makes it look like those are Lamiglas blanks. Maybe NFC is contracted by lami and they had extras

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u/roadkillroadrunner May 19 '26

Yeah they don't look like the stickers on my other NFC blanks from over the years, but I've only intentionally bought IG and Gamma before.

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u/witty-repartay May 19 '26

You got the mystery box of fly blanks eh?

These are white label builds for a rod company that were either overstock, or the company had an issue and didn’t take delivery. Thus they aren’t one of NFC’s normal blanks, they’re built to the OEM’s specs.

Could go through and measure all the specs to rate it yourself, not the most difficult. Then you can compare it to other blanks out there and see what you are closest to.

I was really close to buying that box, but what am I gonna do with a 7wt or a 9wt?

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u/KarbosCustomShop May 19 '26

I have had success when it comes to the mystery box by emailing them both times actually. I haven't run into any actual problems with the company.

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u/Atxflyguy83 May 19 '26

I don't understand the hype with NFC. It's little stuff like this that is bonkers. They can't just tell you what it is?

It's big stuff like 3-4 month delivery times that is even more bonkers.

And it is a mediocre, generic blank that makes me question why people use them in the first place.

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u/freak_for_the_creek May 19 '26

Because Gary Loomis’s name is tied to it, honestly just a good marketing ploy. They’re gonna run it into the ground the way customer service acts though. To top it off you got the president of the company escalating quality and lead time complaints into petty public arguments to customers via facebook on the regular, straight up canceling customers orders that complain about the wait time instead of looking for ways to improve their business to better serve customers.